YERNING FOR THE HOT SUN OF ROATAN

Not crying but I'm really growing so worn out like a pair of sneakers that get worked out in day after day and not washed! That's how it feels when you wake up to the same gray day, day after day here in Portland. I mean I use to live here years back, no wonder I ran like a gypsy in the night! I seriously wish I had a camera, so I could post on this blog and make it better, but that was stolen as well in the last robbery. Its just so darn dark here, and today expecting SNOW IN APRIL? COME ON GIVE ME A BREAK HERE! I remember feeling the sun burning on my skin early in the morning when I walked to the water taxi to my first job in Roatan. The very first day, I had to be there at 8:00 I lived on a hillside up a steep road that was all dirt, the sandy beach front road was connected to mine near the west end of the bay in WEST END. I got pretty early, before 6:00 got all ready.I had a long backless dress on and sandals,(its hot and you can wear pretty much anything) I walked down the hill I was fine the hair was good the makeup was good. But from the moment I stepped onto the beach road, next to sea I felt the humidity and the sun blaring on my shoulders, I started to sweat, I had a big arrangement for the boss for the first day. I wanted him to see I was thankful, and created something really cool with orchids for his office. I was carrying this down the road when I couldn't find a taxi I got all flustered the heat was now burning on me, the hair started to go I could feel sweat dripping down my back then I decided to take a water taxi, but the guys are so lazy they didn't want to take just one person. Told me I had to wait! I couldn't I didn't want to late the first day. I begged practically then scolded cause there so lazy they could care less, laying on the dock like a bunch of ol iguanas. Finally someone volunteered to take me. We flew across the water in the early morning around 7:30 I was soaked with sweat and the sun was crisping my skin on my back and shoulders, the wind of the boat off the water was cool and felt so good, the water's reflection was diamond like, and in the close vicinity of edge of the boat you could see the bottom of the ocean. WHAT A WAY TO GO TO WORK! Although I was worried how I was going to get there on time, the idea of walking early in the warm sun then riding a water taxi to work was a cool way to arrive at your first day on the job. I would do anything right now to have that sun burning my shoulders, the way it feels here is so opposite that is a difficult adjustment since I been living in hot tropical climates for years now. It is strange how the dark damp weather effects the body as well. I never knew I had so many aches and pains! I think I rather deal with the bug bites and the sand in my toes than deal with the damp dark days that are never ending , waking up every morning to look out the window and see the same scene day after day. Branches that are darkened tones of black and deep gray with moss growing on them, leafless and lifeless, the sky in the background a steel gray and sometimes a bit of a pine branch here and there. It reminds me of a terror movie where they show the woods all cold and scary! BOY O BOY! ... Off to work!